Who the service is for
Meine-Kanzlei-Website is aimed at sole practitioners and small and medium-sized firms in Austria and Germany: lawyers, notaries, mediators, tax advisers, auditors, as well as accountants (Bilanzbuchhalter:innen), bookkeepers and payroll accountants. Larger firms with their own marketing department or complex portal requirements are usually better served by a traditional agency.
The service also suits firms that are just being set up. The website can be prepared before registration or appointment is complete, and goes live as soon as the legal notice is complete.
Professional rules: what a firm website may do
At their core, the same principle applies to all advisory professions: advertising must be factual and truthful. The details, however, differ considerably. Lawyers in Austria follow §§ 47 ff. RL-BA 2015, in Germany § 43b BRAO and §§ 6 and 7 BORA. For tax advisers in Germany, § 57a StBerG and § 9 BOStB apply, for auditors § 52 WPO.
Notaries have the tightest limits, because they hold a public office. Accountants in Austria may only offer what their licence under the Bilanzbuchhaltungsgesetz covers, and self-employed bookkeepers in Germany only the activities under § 6 StBerG. We know these differences and write accordingly, while the assessment in each individual case remains with you.
Confidentiality and data protection
Your website collects as little as possible: no cookies, no tracking, and external services such as the map only after a click. The contact form only asks for what is needed for a first reply and asks people not to send confidential details before the firm has taken on the matter.
With us as your service provider, you conclude a data processing agreement under Art. 28 GDPR. In Germany, the professional rules for lawyers additionally require a confidentiality agreement in text form (§ 43e BRAO), and something similar applies to tax advisers. Court filings and correspondence with authorities continue to go via beA, beSt or the Elektronischer Rechtsverkehr.
Legal notice: the details that are often missing
A firm’s legal notice is more extensive than that of other businesses. In Austria, § 5 ECG requires regulated professions to state, among other things, the chamber, professional title, the state in which it was awarded and a reference to the professional rules, plus the disclosure under § 25 Mediengesetz. In Germany, § 5 DDG and the Dienstleistungs-Informationspflichten-Verordnung (DL-InfoV) govern the details, for example on professional indemnity insurance.
The EU Online Dispute Resolution platform has no longer existed since 20 July 2025, so a link to it no longer belongs in the legal notice. Notes on consumer dispute resolution may still be required depending on the profession. Our free legal notice generator puts the details together by profession and country.
Technology you don’t have to worry about
Hosting, SSL certificate, security updates and backups are included in the monthly maintenance. If a problem occurs, we deal with it. With the monitoring module, we additionally check availability around the clock.
Your domain and email mailboxes can stay with your current provider or move to us. Before every switch, we clarify where your emails are hosted, so that no mailbox goes down.
What we do not take on
We are a software agency and do not provide legal or tax advice, not even about your own website. We implement the usual advertising and legal notice rules carefully and say openly where we are unsure. We also do not write your privacy policy, but we provide all the technical details your adviser needs for it.
For binding information, your chamber is the first point of contact. Many chambers answer questions about how their members present themselves, and it is worth asking, especially before a relaunch. Whatever your chamber says, we then put into practice.